Carpathian German Party
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Carpathian German Party
Karpatendeutsche Partei |
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| Chairperson | Roland Steinacker (1928–1933) Desider Alexy (1933–1935) Franz Karmasin (1935–1938) |
| Founded | July 1928 |
| Dissolved | 1938 |
| Preceded by | Karpatendeutshce Volksgemeinschaft |
| Succeeded by | German Party |
| Newspaper | Deutsche Stimmen (1934–1938) |
| Ideology |
German nationalism Anti-Marxism National Socialism (later stages) |
| National affiliation |
German Electoral Coalition (1929) Sudeten German Party (1935–1938) |
| Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1935) |
1 / 300
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| Senate of Czechoslovakia (1935) |
1 / 150
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The Carpathian German Party (German: Karpatendeutsche Partei, abbreviated KdP) was a political party in Czechoslovakia, active amongst the Carpathian German minority of Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus'. It began as a bourgeois centrist party, but after teaming up with the Sudeten German Party in 1933 it developed in a National Socialist orientation.
The KdP originated in 1927 as the Karpathendeutsche Volksgemeinschaft (KDV, 'Carpathian German Ethnic Community'), founded by men like Dr. Roland Steinacker (a professor in Theology from Bratislava), the Sudeten German industrialist Karl Manouschek, Dr. Samuel Früwirt, Carl Eugen Schmidt (a Protestant pastor) and the engineer Franz Karmasin. The KDV was based mainly in Bratislava and surroundings, and gathered its members from the German bourgeouise and sympathizers of various political parties (like the Farmers' League, the German National Party and the German Democratic Progressive Party). It also organized Sudeten Germans living in Slovakia.
The KdP was constituted as a political party in July 1928 in Nálepkovo/Wagendrüssel, with their eyes on the upcoming parliamentary election. The KdP was chaired by Dr. Roland Steinacker until 1933.
The party had a Christian and anti-Marxist outlook, and positioned itself as a party loyal to the Czechoslovak state. A key concern of the founders of the KdP was to steer Germans in Slovakia away from Magyar-dominated parties. The new party hoped to break the political hegemony of the Zipser German Party. In terms of identity, the KdP put forward the notion of a 'Carpathian German' identity as opposed to the 'Zipser German' identity traditionally linked to the Hungarian monarchy.
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